Cabbage is short and thick unbranched, green or gray leaves are numerous and thick, wrapped in layers into a bulbous, oblate shape. Both the stems and leaves of the above-ground portion are edible.
Taro, also called taro, has ovate leaves with long, fat petioles. The flowers are yellowish green. There are fleshy bulbs underground, rich in starch, which are edible.
The potato, also known as potato, underground tubers are round, egg, oval and other shapes, with bud eyes, skin red, yellow, white or purple. Aboveground stems are prismatic, hairy, berries spherical, green or purple-brown. Seeds reniform, yellow. Mostly propagated by tubers, can be used as medicine. Generally eat underground tubers.
Celery: celery, belonging to the umbelliferae. There are two kinds of water celery, dry celery, similar functions, medicinal use of dry celery is better. Dry celery aroma is stronger, also known as "parsley", also known as "medicine celery". Eat celery stems and leaves, especially eat celery leaves, on the prevention of hypertension, arteriosclerosis, etc. are very beneficial, and have auxiliary therapeutic effects.
Shepherd's purse: shepherd's purse (Figure 6)
Shepherd's purse root white. Stem erect, single or basally branched. Basal leaves clustered, etiolated, rosulate, leaves pinnatifid, untidy, terminal segments extra large, leaf blades hairy, leaf rakers winged. Cauline leaves narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate, base arrow-shaped, clasping, margin notched or serrate. Stems 20-50 cm tall at flowering, racemes terminal and axillary. Flowers small, white, bisexual. Sepals 4, oblong, cristate. Short-horned fruit flattened. It is obtriangular and contains most seeds. Mostly eat stems and leaves, high nutritional value, pregnant women eat with caution.
Maize: early maturing grass (Poaceae) corn (Maydeae) annual cereals, scientific name Zea mays, originating in North, Central and South America. The plant is tall, with strong, straight stems. Leaves are narrow and large, with undulate margins, alternate on both sides of the stem. Male inflorescences spikelike terminal. Female flower spikes axillary, maturing into a grain spike with a thick central axis, spikelets in pairs in longitudinal rows developing into two rows of seeds. The spikelet is covered with multiple layers of metamorphic leaves, called the pericarp. The seeds are edible. The number of chromosomes in the somatic cells of diploid maize plants is 10 pairs. So the number of columns in corn is generally even. The seeds are edible and the stalks can be fried for sugar.
Eggplant: is an annual herb of the genus Solanum in the family Solanaceae and perennial in the tropics. Its fruit edible, the color is mostly purple or purple-black, there are also light green or white varieties, the shape is also round, oval, pear-shaped and other various. Guangdong cultivated eggplant fruit shape to long eggplant, there are also ovoid and round, etc., fruit color to purple-red mainly, but also white, green and purple-black. In recent years, with the increase in demand in the northern transport market, the northern transport base also prefers to grow purple-black, shiny long eggplant, ovoid eggplant and round eggplant. Eat their fruits.
Green beans: annual herbs, according to the color of its cotyledons, and is divided into two kinds: green skin green kernel soybean, green skin yellow kernel soybean. Green beans are rich in protein, which contains a variety of essential amino acids, especially high in lysine. Stem stout, densely gray hirsute. Petiole long, densely gray hirsute; stipules small, lanceolate; ternate compound leaves, terminal leaflet rhombic-ovate, 7-13cm long, 3-6cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate or rounded, both surfaces white villous, lateral leaflets smaller, obliquely ovate; leaf axis and petiolule densely yellow hirsute. Racemes axillary; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, hairy; calyx bracelet-shaped, calyx teeth 5, lanceolate, lower 1 tooth longest, both densely white villous; corolla small, white or lilac, slightly longer than calyx; flag petal apex retuse, pterostigma with 1 auricle, keel petal falcate; stamens 10, dimorphic; ovary linear, hairy. Pods strap-shaped oblong, slightly curved, pendulous, yellowish-green, densely green hirsute. Edible seeds.